How To Make A Cardboard ATM

Coleman David
4 min readFeb 9, 2017

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Today, the world moves towards new innovations. Thus, being a part of this technological era, you also desire to meet with the new innovations. So how about to have your own ATM machine with simple home-made material which is sure to collect appreciation from your friends, family, and official colleagues.

Here we just need your five minutes to teach you how to make a cardboard ATM which actually deposit and draws real currency!

Materials: making your own ATM machine in not an expensive idea. All you need just a cardboard box, Scissors, Kraft knife, hot glue gun, color paper, color market and the rest do carting materials you already have in your room.

Easy Step To Cut And Design ATM:

Money Depository Box: first thing in your ATM is a place to deposit real currency. So arrange a simple shoe cardboard box. Draw and cut a circle and three thin squares to keep coins and currency notes such as $500, 100$, and $10 in a sequence at the top of the box. At the same time, make a cylindrical tube and three vertical boxes to deposit and hold currency.

ATM Card Insert Box: Horizontally draw and cut a thin square has enough length and width to insert an ATM card at the front side of the box. mark this one to collect coins while vertically draw and cut same three more thin ATM card slots like for the $500, 100$, and $10 currency notes in a sequence.

Money Collector: your most important part of ATM is the money collected so draw and cut at least 6 inches horizontal while a 2 inches Vertical Square at the front-bottom of your cardboard box. In addition to that, give your squares a little bit tighter on the outer side to come up with a professionally use ATM machine.

Your Basic Structure is Ready To Design: Now glue the cylindrical tube and cardboard square boxes with the heat gun. Place the boxes in sunlight or air to dry the glue and then close the box. Now your basic cardboard ATM machine is ready to design to have an actual ATM look used in Banks.

Make it Looks Like an Actual ATM Machine: wrap the whole ATM cardboard box with colored paper, then use colors to design basic elements of ATM machine such as Screen, numeric keypad and highlight each slot such as Money collector, Coin slot, $500, $100, and $10 currency note slots in a sequence, etc. you can also make it more unique with the rest decoration material you have in your room.

Your ATM is Ready To Use: Now your ATM is ready to use. Just insert coins in the coin box, while in a case of currency notes first turn them into a cylindrical tube enough large to easily fit inside currency depository box part. You can show this ATM to your family and friends where you’re sure to collect a lot of appreciation.

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